Excerpt from The Torch Presently she saw Professor Plow coming down the street with his long, swinging stride, and drew back behind the curtains. She dreaded a call that might result in another proposal for her hand. Even her present dullness was preferable to another argu ment with him on that subject, and she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that his quick glance failed to detect her presence behind the swaying curtains. She wondered, as often before, how a man with such a fine head and such an athletic frame could re main indifferent to the little touches that would make him an attractive, even a remarkable, figure. He was the most interesting personality she had met in the university town. She felt that a man of his force and personal magnetism ought to have risen higher than a college professorship, and ascribed his lack of worldly success to a lack of worldly sense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.